English Buildings

Far from ordinary ‘The glory of the ordinary’ was one reader’s comment on this blog and its subject matter, especially the parts of it ...

Hands to the pump, or, Odd things in churches (3) One of the oldest fire engines in Britain is kept in St Giles Church Great Wishford. Th...

Curves Almshouses. There are little rows of them all over England, the result mostly of acts of local charity that have helped house th...

Changes Although I must have walked past this building hundreds of times when I lived in Oxford, I never paid it much attention. In tho...

On their heads be it I did a post long ago about Cheltenham’s caryatids, describing how their elegant presence on the town’s most stri...

Two hundred years on Dedicated church crawlers will have guessed when I did my previous post about the barn at Mildenhall that I was mak...

On high Mildenhall (which I'm told is pronounced 'Minal') is roughly east of Marlborough in Wiltshire. The local stone is c...